Letters

I disagree with last week’s letter writer. Homer water and sewer rates are not unfair and do not discriminate against Kachemak City.
The writer is here for five months of the year. The City of Homer has to provide the service 24/7 and 365 days a year. Whether or not you put anything into the syste...

If the smell of a fresh caught Salmon
in the last moments of its focused taking
registered, and returned,
in memory and senses as you read this
Please Vote Fish
If the act of catching Salmon,
however the method
leaves you with a certain, and active jo...

All this talk about the HERC building. The deed restriction requires the city to use the land for the benefit of the citizens of Homer. Am I missing something? If the site is used for a new firehouse/police station, isn’t that a benefit for said citizens? ...

It’s been said that it’s wiser to deal with an undesirable but familiar situation than to risk a change that might lead to an even worse situation.
The Unity Ticket held great promise until Bill Walker’s foolhardy decision to drive all the way from Anchorage to Sarah Palin’s lake...

Well, we get more shennanigans from the Board of Fish. These political appointees have not deliberated in Soldotna since 1999. What is neutral about that? A rogue board with a re-allocation agenda for Cook Inlet is the best Gov. Sean Parnell can do. This is the second time he was spurned by his boar...

It’s nearly Halloween and there are celebrations of fall all over town. Some 500 children visit the Bayview/Mountainview neighborhood to trick-or-treat on Oct. 31. In order to streamline traffic and provide a safe space for trick-or-treaters, Bayview and Mountainview will become “Halloween One W...

Seems like we have a waffler in Juneau. Parnell waffles on sexual assault; his waffles on the National Guard right down to blaming his opposition are empty rhetoric. We don’t need wafflers running our state. Parnell, stand up and take your medicine — waffle on out the exit door.
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Like many Alaskans, I have been waiting for Gov. Sean Parnell to resign. He is involved in a four-year cover-up of Alaska National Guard sexual abuse crimes. What has happened here is a very serious matter, a cover-up of multiple, perhaps ongoing crimes....

Native culture uses a shame pole to force a person of high standing to meet or recognize an obligation.
In Gov. Sean Parnell’s case his head would be carved upside down and the words “Choose Respect” would be coming from his mouth and because they are hollow they would flow like the oil that f...

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